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Tala Madani

Tala Madani (Born 1981) is active/lives in California, Connecticut / Iran.  Tala Madani is known for Satirical painting of contemporary culture.

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Tala Madani was born in Tehran, Iran in 1981. She skewers stereotypes in her sharply satirical paintings that evoke clashes of culture: men and women, the rational and the absurd, Western and non-Western. Madani’s figurative paintings often feature a riotous cast of middle-aged men, balding and stocky, whose libidinal mayhem wreaks havoc on any situation the artist thrusts them into.

Acerbic caricatures of both machismo and a childlike desire for mischief, the physical comedy at work in Madani’s paintings is anchored by intense pleasures, pathos, and a pervasive sense of violence.

The history of painting itself is also a target in Madani’s witty works, with spread-eagled characters resembling Color Field* paintings, or characters wearing stripes appearing to be both prisoners and Minimalist* abstractions. Painted with quick gestures, where oozing paint often doubles as bodily fluids, food, and stains, Madani’s compositions are derived from sketchbooks where countle   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2484 characters.]  Artist bio

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